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Particle Physics Explanations for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Events

Manuel Drees

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0304030

Abstract

The origin of cosmic ray events with E 1011 GeV remains mysterious. In this talk I briefly summarize several proposed particle physics explanations: a breakdown of Lorentz invariance, the ``Z-burst'' scenario, new hadrons with masses of several GeV as primaries, and magnetic monopoles with mass below 1010 GeV as primaries. I then describe in a little more detail the idea that these events are due to the decays of very massive, long--lived exotic particles.

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